Wednesday, November 02, 2005

• Tennessee is one of 10 programs that can claim a winning career record against Notre Dame. (Other 9 - Chicago, Florida State, Georgia, Great Lakes, NC State, Nebraska, Michigan, Oregon State, and Yale) So far the teams have met 7 times with the Volunteers claiming a 4-3 advantage. If Notre Dame manages to win the game -- keep in mind that ND has only won one of the three home games against the Vols - the series will be tied. There are 7 programs that have a tied series with the Irish. How many can you name? (Answers at the end).

• Breaking it down by quarter. So, do you think Notre Dame can be considered a 2nd Quarter team this year?

Score By Quarters_

_1st_

_2nd_

_3rd_

_4th_

_OT_

_Total_

Notre Dame

45

103

49

65

3

265

Opponents

48

19

48

56

6

177

• So far the Notre Dame offense has set 17 offensive records. They are:

And if that's not enough, there are another 15 records within reach, although admittedly some are closer than others. For a list, check out page 23 of the ND/UT game release notes on und.com. Considering most of the offense comes back next year, I hope they don't go to too much trouble to get the 2005 records into the record book.

Season Running Averages

I made some changes for this edition of the running averages. First, the chart was getting pretty big so I combined the stats of the first six games into the column labeled "1st Six". If you still want to see the game by game breakdown, here's the link to that chart. Second, there were some excellent comments last time concerning some insightful stats that weren't included on the chart. So, passing efficiency (for Quinn only), scoring offense, passing efficiency defense, scoring defense, red zone defense, red zone touchdown defense have been added. Enjoy.